October 24, 2019 - 41 - “More Mind Messages”

The Day the World Fell Apart

     The other day I wrote about how our subconscious minds send messages in funny ways.  That reminded me of  another example of my subconscious sending me messages through song:

     On September 11, 2001 it felt like the whole world went off the rails and might never come back to any sort of normality.

     That morning our country was under attack and thousands of people were murdered, including my own coworkers.  Around midday Michael and I got word that his brother had cancer and needed surgery immediately.  Sometime during the day we heard that Michael was getting a special work assignment.  It required him to move to Hamburg, Germany...for six months.

     Needless to say mine, and everyone's, conscious mind had plenty to think of.  Listening to any subtleties the subconscious might want to share wasn't on anyone's to do list.

     But that's not a problem.  If you need to hear something, your subconscious will just keep telling you.  It will use all sorts of tricks, from random nudges of thoughts to full-scale illness, to get it's message across.

A Song in My Heart  on My Brain

     Almost from the first day we got to Germany I got this ear worm that would not go away.  Little bits of a song would surface multiple times throughout the day.  Lines like this:

   "Words are flowing out
   Like endless rain into a paper cup..."

     And that would be looped endlessly throughout a day.

     Another day it might be:

   "Pools of sorrow waves of joy
    Are drifting through my opened mind..."

     The next day I might get another line or two, on repeat, for hours on end...:

   "Thoughts meander like a
    Restless wind inside a letter box..."  

     And on and on it went...

Pre-Google Life

     I knew it was a Beatles song but just knew bits and pieces of it,  and it was driving me crazy.

     Though it's hard to even remember this now, the fact was I couldn't just ask Alexa: 

          "Alexa.  What's that song that goes..."thoughts meander like a restless wind..."

     There wasn't anything called an Echo.  There was barely anything called the internet.  (Isn't that so hard to even conceive of now?")

     Anyway, I couldn't just go online and Google the lyrics.  I probably should have tried to figure out what album the song was on and bought the CD, but I never did.

The Big "Ah Ha!" Moment

     I knew Michael had sheet music of the song for guitar back home in Texas.  One of the first things I did when we got home six months later was to hunt it down.

     And I finally was reminded of the chorus that went with all those tidbits of verses:

     "Jai Guru Deva, Om
     Nothing's gonna change my world
     Nothing's gonna change my world
     Nothing's gonna change my world
     Nothing's gonna change my world"*

     Eureka!  That's it!

     My subconscious was trying really hard to soothe me.  At a time when, clearly, the world was changed, it was sending the message that:  There is still good in the world.  It's not all changed.  We still have homes and jobs and food on the table and family and friends to love and there is still good in the world....

     Wikipedia had this interesting explanation of the beginning of the Chorus:

"What does Jai Guru Deva Om mean?

     The refrain "Jai Guru Deva Om" is a mantra intended to lull the mind into a higher consciousness.

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    Thank you subconscious!

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*from "Across the Universe" by John Lennon and Paul McCartney

(Thank you John Lennon and Paul McCartney.)

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"Bad times have a scientific value.  These are occasions a good learner would not miss."

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

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"Remember, you have the capacity to choose.  Choose life!  Choose love!  Choose health!"

-Joseph Murphy, The Power of Your Subconscious Mind 

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